Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi... ...actually a motion picture director, His name was Fritz Lang . Lang 's claim to fame hitherto was the film M (1931) st... ...and movie fans the world over. In the late 1920s, Lang directed one of the very first science fi...

Shortly after Metropolis was released in 1927 it was acquired by Paramount Pictures, which drastically edited the film, cutting an hour of footage. For eighty years efforts have been made to locate the deleted scenes;...